Bottle



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G. P. YOUNG.

BOTTLE.

No. 587,776. Patented Aug. 10,1897.

W l f A. \i- "I TL vi'nesses lnven l'ar UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

CHARLES F. YOUNG, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 587,776, dated August 10, 1897.

Application filed December 26, 1896. Serial No. 617,068. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. YOUNG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to a bottle or hollow vessel, of glass, earthenware,wood, leather, or other material, with a narrow mouth, for holding and carrying liquids, and especially relates to a bottle such as used by apothecaries for holding the drugs and substances used in the composition of medicines of various character.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a bottle of improved construction having an oval mouth for the purpose of more readily filling the same when empty and also to provide means whereby the manipulator, when pouring the contents of the bottle into another vessel, may gage more accurately and control more readily the flow from the mouth by tilting the bottle to a greater angle and without reducing the area or cross-section of the same.

Prior to my invention all bottles have been made with a round neck and provided with a circular opening adapted to receive a frustum-shaped stopper or cork of circular form in cross-section, which is for general use all that may be desired, but for apothecaries, where medicines are compounded and the flow from the mouth must be accurately gaged, an undesirable bottle.

To more particularly describe my invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure lrepresents a plan view of a bottle having a reduced neck of oval cross-section. Fig. 2 shows a side view of the bottle, partly in section. Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively a plan and a sectional side view of a modified form. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 represent plan, side, and edge views of a diagram of the construction of the inner wall of the neck of the bottle and show the mode of grinding the neck when imperfections occur due to the wear of the molds.

Referring to the drawings, A is the body of the bottle, which in this case is represented of cylindrical form, but can beef any other shape well known to the art, and which is reduced at its upperend into the neck B of oval cross-section and terminating in the bead C. The inner wall of the neck B is formed of two half-frustums X and Y, leaving a clear space between them, which forms substantially a truncated wedge Z. The two planes forming the wedge Z intersect in the line V, Fig. 6. The larger oval or the opening at the mouth of the neck is represented in Fig. 5 by the radii R S and the lines U U, the former forming the bases of the two halffrustums X and Y, respectively, whereas r and s are the radii in the plane where the intersection with the cone takes place. To grind the inner wall of the neck to free the same from all imperfections, such as lumps, burs, &c., a cone-shaped arbor of the angle T, which practically coincides with the two half-frustums X and Y, is inserted into the neck, and while the same rotates is moved from the half-frustu'm X to the half-frustum Y, leaving a clear space between the two forming a wedge Z, the planes of which form the lines U Uin Fig. 5 and the intersection of which forms the line V in Fig. 6.

In Figs. 3 and 4 a modification is shown in which the bases of the frustums are of different sizes, and therefore the radii S and R are larger than the radii s and 0, whereas in the previous case, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the radii S and R and also 8 and r are the same.

It is not an essential feature that the crosssection of the neck shall be precisely an oval, and other cross-sections may be used; but the oval shape is the most convenient form to manufacture, the easiest to grind, and gives the desired features of a bottle having a neck not reduced in area of the cross-section of the opening, but to provide an elongated opening and thereby not enlarging the opening to such a degree when tilting the bottle, as is the case when the neck is of a circular crosssection.

I claim 7 1. An article of manufacture, a hollow vessel having a reduced neck of substantially an oval shape in cross-section and the oval crosssection of the mouth of the neck being substantially larger than the oval cross-section adjoining the body of the vessel, substantially as described.

2. A bottle consisting of a hollow body and a contracted neck the area of the oval crosssection at the mouth of the neck being larger than the area of the oval cross-section ad j oining the body, substantially as described.

3. As an article of manufacture, a bottle made of glass having a body and a reduced neck,- the inner wall of the neck being form ed of two half-frustums and the truncated wedge, substantially as described.

4:. As an article of manufacture, a bottle made of glass having a body and reduced neck, the inner wall of the neckbeing formed of two half-frustums and the truncated Wedge the apexes of the two half-frustunis passing 15 A CHARLES F. YOUNG.

itnesses:

FREDK. A. TICKNER, ROBSON G. GREER. 

